1. Socratic Irony--feigning ignorance. Often called "trolling" 2 Schlegelian Irony--holding simultaneously, two contradictory intellectual positions. For instance, on slashdot, legal advice is often suffixed with IANAL. 3. The realization that "recieved truth" has no meaning. A typical slashdot thread, although SCO stories tend to attract ironic fatalists in great numbers. 4. The death of sincerity. There's no such thing as truth, or love, or wisdom, as all communication is ultimately self referential. This post, for instance, simply rehashes an earlier set of posts on the same subject, and thus contributes nothing to the "enlightenment" of slashdot.
It says, and I quote "Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale."
It doesn't say that the RIAA gets the the money to the exclusion of the Record label. His sources are somewhat dubious, and rely chiefly on speculation.
Just what I want to do when I get a new machine: engage in resource allocation games... A new machine should be fast enough, and equipped with enough memory, to run the latest application and operating system without bogging down.
Financially, buying an obsolete machine rarely makes sense.
Both with touch and with TextEdit. On the other hand, Appleworks, which uses Carbon, limits me to to 27 characters, a period, and the extension "cwk". Total:31 characters. Quicktime, AFAIK, is Carbon based, whereas TextEdit uses Cocoa.
I do have a mp3 entitled "Silence of the Lambs (Reprise and Finale) - The Lambs, The FBI, Clarice and Dr. Lecter.mp3", which is 92 characters. (source) It plays just fine in the mac version of iTunes. interesting...
iTunes should just as usable as a CD player. If someone wants to code while listing to music, they should be able to do so. iTunes works well with multiple programs on my single CPU G4, so why shouldn't it work almost as well on a Pentium IV?
India was part of the British Empire. The Viceroy had already declared for the Allied side in 1939. The "Indian National Army" was a revolutionary group organized by, among others, Subhas Chandra Bose, with support from Japan. Largely composed of POWs captured after the fall of Singapore, the INA was unsuccessful on the battlefield.
Conversely, the much larger (2 million men vs 25,000) British Indian Army fought with distinction for the allies.
Seems to be? Uhhh. Like WAV, AIFF is uncompressed, so the quality should be identical to the raw data from a CD.
Quality != Data. Yes, the sound data contained in a well ripped AIFF file should be identical to the samples on the CD. However, at some point, the digital samples must be converted to analog sound. The accuracy of this process varies from device to device.
Shit heard through optimized Dolby 6.1 is still shit! Yes, but is it shit because it was originally shit, or did the Dolby AC3 compression destroy the tonal quality of the music?
Strange that he compares it to a system that few libraries use anymore. Yes, it revolutionized cataloguing. Right before it became obsolete (because it cost too much).
A lot of municipal libraries (you know, the markedly inferior, off campus establishments) in the United States use Dewey.
It's a general purpose supercomputing facility. From the press release:
irginia Tech researchers are already active in a number of areas that will benefit from the new supercomputing facilities, says Kevin Shinpaugh, director of research and cluster computing for the university. These include: nanoscale electronics, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, aerodynamics through multidisciplinary design optimization, molecular statics, computational acoustics, and the molecular modeling of proteins.
The single-purpose nature of the Earth Simulator is somewhat rare, among supercomputing facilities
And why would it be misleading? If Xeons would be used, surely the researchers would optimize for SSE2, as x87 on the Pentium 4 has been crippled. Scientific Computing has always emphasized numerical linear algebra. An entire strain of supercomputer processors was developed to support such requirements.
Besides, the final "score" will be produced by benchmarking with LINPACK. It's not merely a matter of taking manufacturer supplied numbers, multiplying them together, and claiming a spot.
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By "this post", I was referring to my own. It's supposed to be self-referential... Oh, forget it.
I call "dupe".This whole thread is simply a rehash of an earlier slashdot article
1. Socratic Irony--feigning ignorance. Often called "trolling"
2 Schlegelian Irony--holding simultaneously, two contradictory intellectual positions. For instance, on slashdot, legal advice is often suffixed with IANAL.
3. The realization that "recieved truth" has no meaning. A typical slashdot thread, although SCO stories tend to attract ironic fatalists in great numbers.
4. The death of sincerity. There's no such thing as truth, or love, or wisdom, as all communication is ultimately self referential. This post, for instance, simply rehashes an earlier set of posts on the same subject, and thus contributes nothing to the "enlightenment" of slashdot.
It says, and I quote
"Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale."
It doesn't say that the RIAA gets the the money to the exclusion of the Record label. His sources are somewhat dubious, and rely chiefly on speculation.
Perhaps this interview was where you heard the 80/20 figure.
Apple has sold 14 million tracks, one million of which were sold in the past three days.
The US Congress is fond of irony. Remember the Patriot Act? I would assume that other quasi governmental bodies are also skilled in the art.
Just what I want to do when I get a new machine: engage in resource allocation games... A new machine should be fast enough, and equipped with enough memory, to run the latest application and operating system without bogging down.
Financially, buying an obsolete machine rarely makes sense.
Powerbook G4 12": 2.1 kg
iBook 12": 2.2 kg
Panasonic Toughbook 1.29 kg
Both with touch and with TextEdit. On the other hand, Appleworks, which uses Carbon, limits me to to 27 characters, a period, and the extension "cwk". Total:31 characters. Quicktime, AFAIK, is Carbon based, whereas TextEdit uses Cocoa.
I do have a mp3 entitled "Silence of the Lambs (Reprise and Finale) - The Lambs, The FBI, Clarice and Dr. Lecter.mp3", which is 92 characters. (source) It plays just fine in the mac version of iTunes.
interesting...
Nope, I created a text file named with a 83 character name, and it worked just fine.
iTunes should just as usable as a CD player. If someone wants to code while listing to music, they should be able to do so. iTunes works well with multiple programs on my single CPU G4, so why shouldn't it work almost as well on a Pentium IV?
I have a few of them kicking around my house, a couple of EV6s and an EV4 that still does sterling service.
Ah, the joys of 92.5% uptime.
Because the X11 windows were exported from another machine running GNU/Linux.
India was part of the British Empire. The Viceroy had already declared for the Allied side in 1939.
The "Indian National Army" was a revolutionary group organized by, among others, Subhas Chandra Bose, with support from Japan. Largely composed of POWs captured after the fall of Singapore, the INA was unsuccessful on the battlefield.
Conversely, the much larger (2 million men vs 25,000) British Indian Army fought with distinction for the allies.
And how well do you expect Americans to pronounce "Yuhangyuan"?
What typical audiophile fluff. Why don't audiophiles ever give any opinion that is actually backed up with data.
Flip to the last page of the review, for exciting measurements.
Seems to be? Uhhh. Like WAV, AIFF is uncompressed, so the quality should be identical to the raw data from a CD.
Quality != Data. Yes, the sound data contained in a well ripped AIFF file should be identical to the samples on the CD. However, at some point, the digital samples must be converted to analog sound. The accuracy of this process varies from device to device.
Shit heard through optimized Dolby 6.1 is still shit!
Yes, but is it shit because it was originally shit, or did the Dolby AC3 compression destroy the tonal quality of the music?
Strange that he compares it to a system that few libraries use anymore. Yes, it revolutionized cataloguing. Right before it became obsolete (because it cost too much).
A lot of municipal libraries (you know, the markedly inferior, off campus establishments) in the United States use Dewey.
You'd think Sharp would put in a better graphics card. A GeForce4 440 Go is hardly drool inducing.
Yes,but where's the AppKit? You need to install GNUstep...
Wow, those GRAPE 6 machines must be great for modeling tertiary structure of proteins...
Indeed, I forgot that the top500 site requires 64 bit precision or rather, specifies an error bound that requires such precision.
The single-purpose nature of the Earth Simulator is somewhat rare, among supercomputing facilities
Please document your assertions.
And why would it be misleading? If Xeons would be used, surely the researchers would optimize for SSE2, as x87 on the Pentium 4 has been crippled.
Scientific Computing has always emphasized numerical linear algebra. An entire strain of supercomputer processors was developed to support such requirements.
Besides, the final "score" will be produced by benchmarking with LINPACK. It's not merely a matter of taking manufacturer supplied numbers, multiplying them together, and claiming a spot.